LDF Tribute to Charles Ogletree The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is deeply saddened at the passing of former Board member Charles J. Ogletree Jr. A renowned professor of law at Harvard Law School, Professor Ogletree, ...
Today, former LDF Board member and renowned professor of law at Harvard Law School, Charles Ogletree, Jr. passed away. He was 70. Professor Ogletree, affectionately known as “Tree,” served on LDF’s Board of Directors from ...
On August 1, a federal district court in Louisiana issued a ruling in Thomas v. School Board of St. Martin Parish, ordering the school board to follow a plan proposed by the plaintiffs that advances ...
On July 29, 28-year-old O’Shae Sibley, a gay Black man, was stabbed to death at a Brooklyn gas station after he was reportedly attacked by a group of men who had berated Sibley and his ...
Today, civil rights, civil liberties, and racial justice organizations sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas regarding the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) “domestic violent extremism” label, standards for collecting and ...
Plaintiffs respond to the Alabama Legislature passing another congressional map that lacks a second majority-Black district, in direct violation of federal law and the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Legislature ...
Today, LDF and a broad coalition of civil rights organizations sent a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on House Administration expressing opposition to the Americans Confidence in Elections Act (ACE Act). Rather than ...
